# pis
## English
### Noun

pis
* plural of pi

### Anagrams

* IPS, IPs, ISP, Isp, PSI, SIP, SPI, iPS, isp, psi, sip

## Ainu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pis]

### Noun

pis
* shore, beach
    pis un otasand on the beach
    pis ta san.go to the beach.

### References

* Bugaeva, Anna. Handbook of the Ainu Language, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502859

## Albanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پیس (pis, “dirty, filthy, foul”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpis/
* Rhymes: -is

### Adjective

pis (feminine pise)
* (colloquial) dirty, filthy
    Synonym: i pistë

### Noun

pis m (plural pisë)
* (colloquial, derogatory) filth, mess

### Adverb

pis
* dirty (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    Antonym: pastër

#### Derived terms

* pisanik
* i pistë

#### Related terms

* pisllëk

### References

* ↑ Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “pis”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 363

### Further reading

* “pis”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980, page 1487

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Probably from archaic Persian پیس (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”), whence also Turkish pis (“filthy”), and Northern Kurdish pîs (“dirty”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pis]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

pis (comparative daha pis, superlative ən pis)
* bad
    Synonym: yaman
    Vəziyyətimiz çox pisdir. ― Our situation is very bad.
* naughty, dirty
    Gecə yatmamışdan əvvəl pis-pis kinolara baxıblar yəqin. ― They must have been watching some naughty movies before they went to sleep

#### Antonyms

* yaxşı

#### Derived terms

* pislik (“misdoing, evil, harm”)
* pisləmək (“to condemn”)
* pisləşmək (“to get worse, to deteriorate”)

#### Descendants

* → Lezgi: пис (pis)

### References

* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pis”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Catalan
### Etymology

Deverbal from pisar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpis]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pis m (plural pisos)
* floor (storey)
* flat (apartment)
* (castells) each of the levels of a castell

### Further reading

* “pis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “pis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “pis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “pis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Noun

pis
* (vulgar) piss
* (vulgar, slang) cheap beer

### Interjection

pis
* dammit

#### Synonyms

* satans

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪs/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪs

### Noun

pis m (uncountable)
* (vulgar) piss
* (vulgar, slang) cheap beer

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: pische

### Verb

pis
* inflection of pissen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: pi, pie, pies

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French pis, peis, from Latin peius, from peior. Compare pire.

#### Adverb

pis
* worse

##### Derived terms

* de mal en pis
* de pis en pis
* dire pis que pendre de
* en mettant les choses au pis
* pis que pendre
* pis-aller
* tant pis

##### Related terms

* pire

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French piz, peiz (“chest, udder”), inherited from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peg- (“breast”). The word underwent a semantic shift beginning in Old French and was gradually replaced by poitrine in the sense of “chest”.

#### Noun

pis m (plural pis)
* udder

##### Related terms

* poitrine

### Etymology 3

Syncope of puis.

#### Alternative forms

* pi

#### Conjunction

pis
* (North America, colloquial) and, besides
** 1996, Chrystine Brouillet, C'est pour mieux t'aimer, mon enfant, →ISBN, page 78:Je suis habituée, protesta-t-elle. Pis j’ai pas besoin d’un père pour me faire la morale.‘I'm used to it,’ she protested. ‘And I don't need a father to lecture me.’

### Further reading

* “pis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* psi, spi

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese peixe. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pexi.

### Noun

pis
* fish

## Irish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʲɪʃ/

### Noun

pis f (genitive singular pise, nominative plural piseanna)
* pea

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
pis
piseanna
vocative
a phis
a phiseanna
genitive
pise
piseanna
dative
pis
piseanna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an phis
na piseanna
genitive
na pise
na bpiseanna
dative
leis an bpis don phis
leis na piseanna :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Lithuanian
### Verb

pis
* third-person singular future of pisti
* third-person plural future of pisti

## Middle English
### Noun

pis
* Alternative form of pisse

## Norman
### Noun

pis m pl
* plural of pi

## Old English
### Etymology

From Latin pēnsus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piːs/

### Adjective

pīs
* heavy, weighty

#### Derived terms

* pīsian
* pīslīċ
* pīslīċe

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “pīs”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Interjection

pis
* call used for cats

## Spanish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpis/ [ˈpis]
* Rhymes: -is
* Syllabification: pis

### Noun

pis m (uncountable)
* (colloquial) pee, wee
    Synonym: orina

#### Derived terms

* hacer pis
* hacerse pis

### Further reading

* “pis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English fish.

### Noun

pis
* fish
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:21:Orait God i mekim kamap ol traipela pis na snek bilong solwara, na ol arapela kain samting bilong solwara, na ol kain kain pisin.→New International Version translation

## Turkish
### Etymology

Probably from Persian پیس (“stained, wrinkled, leprous”) (archaic), whence also Azerbaijani pis (“bad, dirty”), Northern Kurdish pîs (“dirty”) and Armenian փիս (pʻis).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pis/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

pis
* dirty
    Synonym: kirli

#### Derived terms

* pis bıyık
* pislemek
* pislik

### References

* ↑ http://www.nisanyansozluk.com/?k=pis

## Volscian
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kʷis. Cognates with Latin quis, Oscan 𐌐𐌉𐌔 (pis), Faliscan 𐌐𐌉𐌔 (pis), Paelignian pid, South Picene pid, Umbrian 𐌐𐌉𐌔𐌉 (pisi), and Marrucinian pis.

### Pronoun

pis (nominative singular)
* somebody

#### Derived terms

* sepis

### References

* 2022, Blanca María Prósper, “The Tabula Veliterna: a sacred law from Central Italy”, in Rivista Italiana di Linguistica e dialettologia‎, number XXIV (quotation in English; overall work in English), pages 13-14:
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN